A vacuum spacetime with closed null geodesics

DOI10.1016/j.aop.2012.11.004zbMath1263.83055MaRDI QIDQ1947396

Debojit Sarma, Mahadev Patgiri, Faizuddin Ahmed

Publication date: 22 April 2013

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2012.11.004

zbMATH Keywords

local isometry; vacuum spacetimes; closed null geodesics; plane wave spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C15: Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory

83C10: Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory

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